Jesus the Lamb of God Part Two
Jesus The Lamb of God
Part Two
In addition to getting forgiveness and cleansing from sin, we get the Lamb of God inside us to sustain us as we travel toward the promised land. The fullness foreshadowed in Exodus 12:26-27 (KJV). This passage describes the reason the Israelites were to continue celebrating the Passover each year.
26 And it shall come to pass, when your children shall say unto you, What mean ye by this service? 27 That ye shall say, It is the sacrifice of the LORD'S passover, who passed over the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt, when he smote the Egyptians, and delivered our houses. And the people bowed the head and worshipped.
Passover was instituted to provide an annual reminder of Gods deliverance of the Israelites from slavery in Egypt. It is a shadow of what God would do through Jesus Christ.
We see another important detail in Exodus 12:46 (KJV)
46 In one house shall it be eaten; thou shalt not carry forth ought of the flesh abroad out of the house; neither shall ye break a bone thereof.
This prefigured the cross. John records the fulfillment of this shadow in John 19:32-37 (KJV) where we read, “Then came the soldiers, and brake the legs of the first, and of the other which was crucified with him. But when they came to Jesus, and saw that he was dead already, they brake not his legs: But one of the soldiers with a spear pierced his side, and forthwith came there out blood and water. And he that saw it bare record, and his record is true: and he knoweth that he saith true, that ye might believe. For these things were done, that the scripture should be fulfilled, A bone of him shall not be broken. And again another scripture saith, They shall look on him whom they pierced.
None of Jesus’ bones were broken, and a prophesy from Zechariah 12:10 (KJV) was also fulfilled: 10 And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplications: and they shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness for his firstborn.
The Spirit of grace is Jesus, as we see in John 1:14 (KJV) “And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.” Then in verse 17 he wrote, “For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.”
Now, let’s get back to the Lamb and see how the reality gets fleshed out in the New Testament.
John the baptizer called Jesus the Lamb of God in John 1:29 (KJV) 29 The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.
Jesus is the Lamb provided by God. Perfect and spotless in every way. His coming was the fulfillment of Abraham’s statement to Isaac in Genesis 22:8 that God will provide Himself a Lamb.
